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17th Century Solar Oddity Believed Linked To Global Cooling Is Rare Among Nearby Stars
June 2, 2004 A mysterious 17th century solar funk that some have linked to Europe's Little Ice Age and to global climate change, becomes even more of an enigma as a result of new observations by University of ... > full story -
Groundbreaking Research To Improve Forecasts Of Sunspot Cycle
May 31, 2004 Using a new computer model of the Sun, scientists have begun work on a groundbreaking forecast of the next cycle of ... > full story -
NCAR Instrument Gets Breakthrough View Of Sun's Magnetic Halo
May 31, 2004 A new instrument developed at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) has captured landmark imagery of fast-evolving magnetic structures in the solar ... > full story -
XMM-Newton Detects X-Ray 'Solar Cycle' In Distant Star
May 12, 2004 For years, astronomers have wondered whether stars similar to the Sun go through periodic cycles of enhanced X-ray activity, like those often causing troubles to telephone and power lines here on ... > full story -
Scientists Announce Cosmic Ray Theory Breakthrough
May 5, 2004 University of California scientists working at Los Alamos National Laboratory have proposed a new theory to explain the movement of vast energy fields in giant radio galaxies ... > full story -
SOHO Sees Its 750th Comet
April 7, 2004 SOHO comet 750 was discovered by the German amateur astronomer Sebastian Honig, one of the most successful SOHO comet-hunters. It was a part of the Kreutz family of 'sungrazing' comets, which ... > full story -
SOHO Snaps Spectacular Sun Shot
March 17, 2004 On Friday, 12 March 2004, the Sun ejected a spectacular 'eruptive prominence' into the heliosphere. SOHO, the ESA/NASA solar watchdog observatory, faithfully recorded the ... > full story -
Biggest Ever Solar Flare Was Even Bigger Than Thought
March 16, 2004 Physicists in New Zealand have shown that last November's record-breaking solar explosion was much larger than previously estimated, thanks to innovative research using the upper atmosphere as a ... > full story -
Astrophysicists Listen To Loops Shivering On The Sun
February 18, 2004 You would imagine that a 500,000 kilometre long arch of super heated plasma releasing energy equal to the simultaneous explosion of 40 billion Hiroshima atomic bombs would be as easy to ... > full story -
Extensive Destruction Powers Solar Explosions
December 17, 2003 Large-scale destruction of magnetic fields in the Sun's atmosphere likely powers enormous solar explosions, according to a new observation from NASA's Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic ... > full story
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